Tack Swap Narrative

On Saturday, February 6th, I traveled to the 8th Annual Tack Swap hosted by the Stark County Jr. Fair 4-H Horse Committee at the Stark County Fairgrounds. This was the first time I had ever been to this event and I was attending to assist my good friend Amy with her booth. Amy is the owner and operator of a small scale western wear store, City Limits Western, which was going to be displayed at the tack swap and her husband Dusty, our friend Adriana, and myself were all recruited to help her out. The day began with us waking up around five thirty in the morning to finish loading the last few pieces of merchandise onto the trailer. We threw our clothes on and hustled outside into the cold air to finish the packing and get on the road in hopes …show more content…
We sat in the warm truck waiting for one of the committee members to show up and unlock the Art Hall building where the swap would be help. We had been waiting for about ten minutes when finally a committee member, Julie, showed up to unlock the building. She unlocked the building door and proceeded to our truck to give us instructions on where to unhook the trailer for our booth. Dusty listened to her carefully and began driving toward the building. As we entered the building, Dusty carefully maneuvered the big, green, dually truck that was hooked to the long, black, box trailer between the support beams and drove back to the corner of the building where our booth would be set up. He managed to turn around the trailer and carefully back it up against the wall, leaving us plenty of room to unload and set up the space in a neat and orderly manner. By the time Dusty was finished and the trailer was parked, it was around seven o’clock which would give us about three hours to fully unload and set up all of the merchandise considering the event officially opened at ten o’clock. We began to work quickly because even though three hours seemed like a decent amount of time, we knew there was a great amount of work to be